Mahé

Explore our curated restaurants, hotels, bars, and wineries in Mahé.

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Accolades in Mahé

Cyann Restaurant in Port Launay holds World’s Best Wine Lists 3-Star accreditation and has the only exceptional wine program in our Mahé guide. Its extensive, sommelier-led list accompanies modern French-Asian cooking with sushi, with tasting menu, à la carte, and small-plate formats. The restaurant sits within Constance Ephelia and has beachfront views and artistic plating. Our guide covers 15 restaurants citywide, including international buffet service and immersive European fine dining. Baie Lazare has resort restaurants and hotel drinks service. Café Lazare at Kempinski Seychelles Resort serves themed breakfast and dinner buffets with open kitchen interaction and offerings for children. Bar et salon des planteurs, also in Baie Lazare, serves craft cocktails and rum in a hotel lounge, including a tropical rum-driven signature cocktail. Aperçu des spécialités culinaires combines a multi-course European menu with projection mapping, showing a tiny animated chef cooking on the plate.

Wine, cocktails and buffet dining at resorts

Cyann Restaurant has an extensive, sommelier-led wine list. Bar et salon des planteurs serves craft cocktails and rum, while Café Lazare serves international buffets.

Cyann Restaurant
Cyann Restaurant in Port Launay pairs fine dining with a tasting menu, à la carte service, and small plates. Its modern French-Asian cooking includes sushi, and its extensive, sommelier-led wine list earned World’s Best Wine Lists 3-Star accreditation.
Bar et salon des planteurs
In Baie Lazare, Bar et salon des planteurs centres on craft cocktails and rum, with a standard wine program alongside them. This hotel bar and lounge at Kempinski Seychelles Resort serves a tropical rum-driven signature cocktail.
Café Lazare
Café Lazare in Baie Lazare is an international buffet restaurant at Kempinski Seychelles Resort. Its buffet service includes themed breakfast and dinner buffets, open kitchen interaction, and offerings for children.

Resort dining formats

Mahé’s set-menu dining is mostly found inside hotels and resorts. These venues show the island’s range, from formal tasting menus to immersive dinner shows and buffet service.

Cyann Restaurant
Port Launay’s Cyann Restaurant offers a tasting menu alongside à la carte and small plates. It is an artistic fine dining room with beachfront views over Port Launay Marine Park and the most serious wine programme in our Mahé guide.
Aperçu des spécialités culinaires
Aperçu des spécialités culinaires combines European fine dining with an immersive dinner show. A multi-course menu runs in sync with 3D projection mapping, in which a tiny animated chef appears to cook on the diner’s plate.
Café Lazare
Café Lazare in Baie Lazare serves international buffets at Kempinski Seychelles Resort. Its buffet format includes themed breakfast and dinner service, with open kitchen interaction and offerings for children in the hotel’s restaurant.

Planning FAQ

Which neighbourhood has the strongest wine scene on Mahé?

Port Launay has the strongest wine scene in our guide. Cyann Restaurant is there, and it carries the island’s only exceptional wine program, supported by an extensive, sommelier-led list with World’s Best Wine Lists 3-Star accreditation.

How many Michelin-starred restaurants are in your Mahé guide?

Mahé has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Cyann Restaurant in Port Launay has an exceptional wine program, an extensive, sommelier-led list, and World’s Best Wine Lists 3-Star accreditation alongside modern French-Asian cooking with sushi.

Where should I look for tasting menus on Mahé?

Cyann Restaurant and Aperçu des spécialités culinaires offer tasting menus in our guide. Cyann Restaurant in Port Launay also offers à la carte service and small plates, while Aperçu des spécialités culinaires pairs a multi-course European menu with an animated projection-mapping dinner show.

Which Mahé venues hold wine-list awards?

Cyann Restaurant is the only Mahé venue in our guide with a wine-list award. It holds World’s Best Wine Lists 3-Star accreditation, which is the clearest signal of serious cellar curation on the island.

By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards

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Cyann Restaurant

Located within the Constance Ephelia resort on Mahé, Cyann Restaurant holds a 3-Star accreditation from the World's Best Wine Lists, placing it among the Indian Ocean's more seriously curated dining rooms. The wine program earns its standing in a category where most resort restaurants settle for safe, import-heavy lists. Pair that with Mahé's position as the Seychelles' main culinary hub, and Cyann represents a meaningful step up from the archipelago's typical resort fare.

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Aperçu des spécialités culinaires

Aperçu des spécialités culinaires is better read as a Mahé resort-dining lens than as a chef-led destination table: the interest lies in how Seychelles cooking translates local fish, fruit, spice, and Creole habits for an international hotel audience. In Baie Lazare, that means island produce and coastal context matter more than ceremony, with the wider Mahé scene close enough for comparison.

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Café Lazare

Café Lazare belongs to Mahé’s resort-dining circuit, where the useful question is not ceremony but sourcing: how island produce, seafood supply, and international hotel expectations meet on the plate. Its Baie Lazare setting makes it a practical choice for travellers already moving through the island’s southwest coast rather than diners chasing a trophy-table format.

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Cheval Blanc Seychelles

On Mahé's southern coast, Cheval Blanc Seychelles occupies one of the Indian Ocean's most dramatically positioned shorelines at Anse Intendance. The LVMH maison brings 52 villas, a Guerlain spa, and Jean-Michel Gathy's design language to a stretch of granite-framed beach where the architecture is as considered as the setting. Rates are available on request only.

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Four Seasons Resort Seychelles

Perched on the cliffs above Anse La Liberte bay on Mahé, Four Seasons Resort Seychelles comprises 67 standalone villas set into dense hillside forest, each with a private pool and ocean views. The property pairs Four Seasons service depth with an unusually wild natural setting, and rates from approximately $18,899 place it in the upper tier of Indian Ocean luxury.

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Anantara Maia Seychelles Villas

Selected by the Michelin Guide Hotels 2025, Anantara Maia Seychelles Villas occupies a private cove on Mahé's southwest coast, where the architecture works with the granite hillside rather than against it. All-villa format, full-butler service, and a location at Anse Louis place it in the small-footprint, high-privacy tier of Seychelles luxury.

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Mango House Seychelles, LXR Hotels & Resorts

A 41-room boutique retreat on the southern shores of Mahé, Mango House Seychelles sits along Anse Aux Poules Bleues with five dining outlets, three pools, and the Anpe Spa. The property carries the creative legacy of photographer Gian Paolo Barbieri and operates under the LXR Hotels & Resorts banner, with a distinct emphasis on local artisanship, community, and active island experiences.

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L'Escale Resort Marina & Spa

Positioned between Mahé's Indian Ocean coastline and the flanks of Morne Seychellois, L'Escale Resort Marina & Spa draws its name from the rest stops of Ottoman seafarers — a framing that holds up. The resort pairs marina access with mountain-backed seclusion in a configuration that few properties on the island can match. It sits in Victoria, placing guests within reach of both the capital's rhythm and the water.

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Kempinski Seychelles Resort Baie Lazare

Kempinski Seychelles Resort Baie Lazare holds a rare triple award position on Mahé's southwest coast: Regional Winner for Luxury Sustainable Resort, Country Winner for Luxury Family Beach Resort, and Continent Winner for Luxury Beachfront Resort. The property sits where the Indian Ocean meets one of the island's quieter bays, placing it firmly in the upper tier of Seychelles beachfront hospitality with a service model built around anticipatory, personalised attention.

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Bar et salon des planteurs

A lobby bar in Baie Lazare has a different job from an urban cocktail den: it sets the evening’s tempo before dinner, after the beach, and between long island transfers. Bar et salon des planteurs, inside Kempinski Seychelles Resort on Mahé, belongs to that resort-bar tradition, where comfort, pacing, and a calm room matter as much as the drink list.

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